[ashbee]

> No one can explain the qualia of the sensation and the only way to claim this thing can be experienced by non-biological objects is by a blind faith.

Sure, but the exact same argument could be made about everyone who isn't you, couldn't it? You only have two pieces of evidence to support the idea that other people feel anything:

- you feel things, other people are made of the same meat stuff as you so maybe it's a safe assumption that other people feel things in the same way you do (aside: this does pose a bit of a problem for those of us who eat animal products)

- other people tell you they feel things

Could I not say that you're relying on blind faith in assuming that I feel things just because you do?

Also, how do you know you feel things? How do you know you have free will? How do you know you're conscious? The only answer anyone can honestly give to any of those questions is "because I feel like I do".

We could say "well, it'll be magic then", but that's not particularly satisfying. To be fair you did say it's magic "for lack of a better word", however there is a better word: unknown.

[anon291]

Indeed I have no evidence that anyone but me experiences it. But I am a biologic organism. Thus my claim that there is no evidence of non biological qualia still stands.